Even the original JPEG was pretty messed up if you look closely. Expanding it probably just revealed all the old artefacts, just as much as re-converting it created new ones.

With all the cel shading, it probably would’ve been better as an 8-bit PNG … but we’ll never know, because all the JPEG artefacts have added enough complexity that you can’t achieve good PNG compression any more.

I’ve for a long while suggested that Subversion is a terrorist/anarchist simulator sort of thing. Best analogy I could find was the Panther Modern raid on Sense/Net in Neuromancer. When I mentioned this to Chris + Mark at Eurogamer, they wouldn’t confirm much, but said that a Neuromancer feel was the sort of thing they were after.

With the name and a randomly generated city I’m expecting a Republic:The Revolution style thing. But hopefully with more whizz bang fun and done in Introversion’s lovely jubbly neon retro presentation style.

Darwinia and Uplink both fired up strong emotions with extremely limited pool of focus. So while i don’t mind the limited graphical style in the slightest i do wonder if this move to full 3d world will produce the same effect.

I think that it would be ace if they injected a bit of Cholo into it. I see that screenshot and I imagine being able to wander around a large city taking over other characters so you can accomplish a larger goal and I just get incredibly excited. ‘course, I am terrible at predicting how games turn out but it’s nice to imagine things.

I think it’s a kind of a blue-sky/”in-development” thing where they have been playing around with various ideas, for example, one part was using clever techniques/mathematics to create city-scapes. Another part is about constructing machines/systems in-game from smaller logic-gate like units and wires.

The idea is to give files that people that only have IE on his computer on a very old windows can open. There are people that will not know how to open a PNG file.
Hell.. probably most people have problems using PNG with some popular versions of Microsoft Word. JPG is lossy, but has still much more compatible software out here than PNG. PNG is what professional or amateur people will use. JPG is what you give to people that barelly know how to turn the computer on.

Uh.. everyone has already done the joke about GIT and SVN. note to self: I must read all the comments before posting.

*looks at the image*

It looks to me like a procedural room generator where you can see (and maybe target-pain?) the next rooms you will visit. If else.. It looks like a Introversion game, so… here.. I suppose thats was intended, as a thing intended, is a sucess :-)

NO. JPEG quality 100% is NOT lossless. It will ALWAYS lose colour resolution relative to brightness resolution (chosen because JPEG is a perceptual encoding, like MP3, so it throws things away based on human senses). This is not controlled by the quality setting.

You are telling people to use it in preference to PNG, however, which is complete nonsense. Internet Explorer has supported PNG since version 4. Even some hypothetical person still running first-edition Windows 98 will have at least this version. You may as well say “don’t use CSS”, which has even worse historical support (Netscape 4, anybody?).

Nope. I say that If you are forced for some reason to use JPG. You can still send something that don’t look like crap zoomed, If you save using 100% quality. I say that some information will be lost, probably mostly about color.1) Repeat: I say that some information will be lost. 2) Goto 1.